Monthly Archives: January 2009
Kindle update
This smart fellow at Silcon Valley Insider has figured out that The New York Times could slash its delivery costs at least in half by stopping printing the rag and giving each of its subscribers a Kindle. That’s kind of cool … Continue reading
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A contract in Old Greenwich
I don’t know what to make of the news reported today that 6 Irvine in Old Greenwich has gone to contract. It’s a tiny little house that’s been up for sale since 2006, asking $1.699 million. It finally dropped to … Continue reading
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Even waterfront has its limits
Great views, obviously, from this house next to Tod’s. It sold for $3.535 million back in the glory days of 2005 and sold again, untouched, just eight months later for $4.975 to the current owners. They must have figured they … Continue reading
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What does she know that we don’t?
A fellow agent just got off the phone with a hard bargainer who said she’d restored homes from New York City to Utica. She was interested in land in Greenwich, she said, but she was not going to pay more … Continue reading
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Will the last guy with ethics on Wall Street please turn out the lights?
Steven Schwarzman, head of Blackstone Group, has been sued by the Financial Times for stealing on-line subscriptions from the paper since 2002. One employee got the password and log-information and then distributed it to everyone else at the company, saving a whopping … Continue reading
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But Waterfront still sells, even in Norwalk
Wilson Point, Norwalk, anyway. This cool-looking old house, renovated and sitting on an acre-and-a-half of direct waterfront, was listed in October for $5.495 million and just sold for about $5 million. Ten percent off asking, in this market seems like … Continue reading
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2001 pricing on North Street
718 North is what I suppose I’d call a tired old house on great property with water views of the water company’s “lake”. You can’t use that lake – it’s a reservoir – but no one else can, either, so your privacy … Continue reading
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Round Hill Road 25% off
I like this house very much. It’s well designed and beautifully built. It has two acres in the 4 acre zone but those two acres support a pool, good yard and views over meadows and woods. Who needs more? It … Continue reading
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Greenwich Time’s Nova admits: “Real estate market’s in the crapper!”
[Editor's note: Greenwich Time feels that the news they provide on our local market is so accurate and timely that they'd be fools to give it away, so Susan Nova's column is not posted on line. If you wait a week, … Continue reading
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We’re from the government and we’re here to hurt
I’ve written about this before but here’s another article on the toy safety law, passed by Congress and effective next week, that will put small toy and clothing manufacturers out of business. Big Toy – Hasbro, Mattell love it because they … Continue reading
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Southerbees Greenwich discovers the Internet
In a move entirely unrelated to this blog’s needling, Sotheby’s Greenwich has decided to release its listing data to Internet search sites. Until now, the firm shared that information only with its other Realogy-owned firms, Coldwell Banker and Century 21. … Continue reading
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Google kills Bambi
In upstate New York. Old news from the summer but no one noticed until recently. All nicely photographed by the Google map team. It’s brutal, but at least it was accidental and not a deliberate act of cruelty like Glenn … Continue reading
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Dodd: “This has nothing to do with my Countrywide loans or my Irish cottage!”
Plot to destroy all Fannie Mae loan documents thwarted. Dodd: “I knew nothing about it and it’s only coincidence that my cottage is named ‘Fanny Rest’. Now go away.”
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Maybe we can market Greenwich as a weekend destination for lobbyists
When Washington has the power to decide who gets rich and who doesn’t, it’s hardly surprising that it’s the lobbyists who are first in line for that wealth. This isn’t a new phenomenon of course but recent events, including TARP, the … Continue reading
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Apples to apples, one to watch
This is a nice little house that came on today for $1.250 million. It has a sales history that neatly illustrates where the market went during the past nine years and perhaps its sale now will show where that market … Continue reading
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Obama has an idea
We’ll bring back unions, soak the rich and create more entitlements for the middle class. It’s worked like a charm in France, hasn’t it? I do wish that all those liberals who have threatened to move to France over the … Continue reading
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Nancy Pelosi on job stimulus bill
There is no reason why anyone, after watching this brief clip of our leader explaining the stimulus bill, should oppose it anymore. The debate is over!
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“Wall Street Bonuses to go way of Dodo” – Bloomberg
Article in Bloomberg predicts that governmental control of Wall Street firms could kill bonuses. Bad news for Greenwich real estate sellers, if true (and great news for buyers, of course – they’d no longer have to compete against people earning 10X … Continue reading
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Flashback, 2006 – times change
I found this bit of history from less than three years ago. My my. Antares Purchases Two Greenwich Residential Complexes $223 Million Acquisition is Largest in Connecticut History 22 February 2006 GREENWICH, CT – February 22, 2006: In what is … Continue reading
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Apologist for Greenwich Public Schools
Now that I’ve discovered its links (or they added them) I can refer to Greenwich Post articles of interest. Here’s one from School Board member Steve Anderson defending Greenwich public schools. It’s got some interesting information, make of it what … Continue reading
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